Why must creativity require free will? You need to explain the connection. Maybe you can have one without the other, according to your understanding of each.

I should point out, as David Deutsch explains in The Beginning of Infinity, we humans do not yet understand creativity. If you do understand it, explain it to us all. Or else, relinquish your implicit claim that there is some sort of necessary connection to free will. Whatever you think that is.

I don’t see how one thing without an explanation - creativity - can be explained by something else without an explanation.

Remember, if you can explain it, you can simulate it. So when we have your computer program that does creative stuff, that will convince me.